MS Gotenland was a cargo motor ship that was built in Denmark during the Second World War and scrapped in China in 1970.

In 1940 Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen, Denmark was building the ship for A. F. Klaveness & Co of Norway.

However, in April 1940 Germany invaded Denmark, and the Kriegsmarine requisitioned the uncompleted ship.

[1] The ship had a single screw, driven by a Burmeister & Wain nine-cylinder, single-acting, two-stroke diesel engine.

[2] On arrival in Auschwitz, all men under 18 and over about 45–50 years, and almost all women, were selected for immediate execution in one of the gas chambers.

[7] Gotenland, still damaged from the bombing off Libau, took part in rescuing some of the survivors from the sea.

[8] In May 1945 Germany capitulated, and on August 31 Gotenland was finally delivered to Klaveness & Co, who had ordered her at the beginning of the war.

[4] By 1946 Hopeville's navigation equipment included wireless direction finding, an echo sounding device, and gyrocompass.

[4] In 1957 Hopeville's ownership was transferred from Skibs-A/S Steinstad to Skibs-A/S Siljestad, but Klaveness & Co remained her managers.